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Shakespeare's Play Within Play
Medieval Imagery and Scenic Form in Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear
Inbunden, 1990
278 kr
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In his foreword to the volume, Clifford Davidson praises Guilfoyle's application of the concept of scenic form in her study of Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear, and her exposition of Shakespeare's historical consciousness, noting her sensitive examination of the shape of the playwright's scenes when …
Holy Week and Easter Ceremonies and Dramas from Medieval Sweden
Inbunden, 1990
342 kr
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Included here are the texts, translations, musical transcriptions, and facsimiles of the Swedish music-dramas for Holy Week and Easter: Depositio, Elevatio, and Visitatio Sepulchri.
Holy Week and Easter Ceremonies and Dramas from Medieval Sweden
Häftad, 1990
269 kr
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Included here are the texts, translations, musical transcriptions, and facsimiles of the Swedish music-dramas for Holy Week and Easter: Depositio, Elevatio, and Visitatio Sepulchri.
Studies in Fifteenth-Century Stagecraft
Inbunden, 1991
609 kr
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Before he suddenly passed away, John W. Robinson was working on a manuscript that he saw as effecting a marriage between the dramatic and the theatrical, as he felt there was too large a divide between literary scholars and practitioners of the theater. In it, Robinson stated that his "purpose it …
Crossing the Boundaries
Christian Piety and the Arts in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Confraternities
Inbunden, 1991
314 kr
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Despite the paramount importance of confraternities (especially to males) in medieval European society, scholars have tended to neglect not only the social role they played but also the influence they had on the art, drama, music, and thinking of the society in which they not only existed but …
Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580
Inbunden, 1991
342 kr
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This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings, and the woodcuts that appear in playbooks produced by the first English printers.
Word, Picture, and Spectacle
Häftad, 1984
302 kr
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Each of these diverse essays confronts important issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include the symbolism of scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts (Karl Wentersdorf), connections between word and picture in religious art (Roger Ellis), and the …
Homo, Memento Finis
The Iconography of Just Judgement in Medieval Art and Drama
Av David Bevington, Huston Diehl m. fl.
Inbunden, 1985
361 kr
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The medieval cycle plays from such cities as York and Chester culminated in a drama about the end of time, the Last Judgment. David Bevington and the other contributors to this book look at this final event of history as depicted in pre-modern times, and the result is a work of scholarly precision …
Fleury Playbook
Essays and Studies
Av Thomas P. Campbell, Clifford Davidson
Häftad, 1985
412 kr
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Growing out of a symposium on the Fleury Playbook at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, this book includes essays from the symposium, as well as additional papers written by scholars whose specialties were not represented at the conference. Each essay covers a unique topic in the study …
Saint Play in Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 1986
632 kr
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This illustrated volume intelligently provides a much-needed introduction to what may have been the most popular variety of drama in the Middle Ages: the saint play. A comprehensive and collaborative survey is provided with an emphasis on interdisciplinary study rather than only literary analysis. …
Monophonic Lauda and the Lay Religious Confraternities of Tuscany and Umbria in the Late Middle Ages
Av Cyrilla Barr
Inbunden, 1988
566 kr
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The study of popular hymnody is remote not only from contemporary experience but also from very many contemporary scholars. A great deal of this remove stems from the complicated origins and history of this important genre. The Monophonic Lauda aims to present for the first time an English study of …
Iconoclasm vs. Art and Drama
Av Clifford Davidson, Ann Eljenholm Nichols
Inbunden, 1989
332 kr
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The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of religious drama in England also by the early years of Queen Elizabeth I destroyed perhaps the majority of ecclesiastical art in the country. The essays in this book provide analysis of the intellectual and religious motivation as well as new …
Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)
A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Translation
Häftad, 2023
493 kr
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The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a critical point in the power-struggle between the papacy and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. This new translation, with accompanying Latin edition, reveals this drama to be …
Material Culture and Medieval Drama
Inbunden, 1999
466 kr
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The contributions by distinguished American and British scholars to this volume recognize that early drama depended on specific developments in material culture in order to achieve its effects, which included both visual and auditory means of appealing to audiences. The discussions range from the …
Gesture in Medieval Drama and Art
Inbunden, 2001
335 kr
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Gesture and movement on stage in early drama have previously received very little attention in scholarship. The present collection of essays is the first book to present sensible, penetrating, and wide-ranging discussions of the gestural effects that were integral to the early stage. In addition to …
Paying the Piper
Music in Pre-1642 Cheshire
Inbunden, 2002
333 kr
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In Paying the Piper Elizabeth Baldwin studies the early music situation in a single county, Cheshire, from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the Civil War, focusing on music outside the regular control of the church and looking not only at the trained professional but at music makers, from …
Paying the Piper
Music in Pre-1642 Cheshire
Häftad, 2002
522 kr
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In Paying the Piper Elizabeth Baldwin studies the early music situation in a single county, Cheshire, from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the Civil War, focusing on music outside the regular control of the church and looking not only at the trained professional but at music makers, from …
Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Av TBD, Timothy J. McGee
Inbunden, 2003
244 kr
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One impression that stands out from this collection is the extent to which improvisation was an important factor in all of the arts. As each of the authors assembles a case by ferreting out bits and pieces of information having to do with a single art, the weight of the assembled material lends …
Worlde and the Chylde
Av Peter Happe, Clifford Davidson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
456 kr
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The Worlde and the Chylde, issued by the press of Wynkyn de Worde in 1521, is one of the very earliest plays published in England. It also has very considerable interest for its adaptation of the Ages of Man iconography, which is extensively treated in the introduction, notes, and illustrations.
Coventry Corpus Christi Plays
Av Clifford Davidson, Pamela M King
Inbunden, 2000
374 kr
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One of the greatest medieval drama cycles in England was mounted annually at Coventry at Corpus Christi until suppressed in 1579, and is of particular importance because it was almost certainly seen by William Shakespeare when he was a boy in nearby Stratford-upon-Avon. The two extant pageants from …
Mary of Nemmegen
The ca. 1518 Translation and the Middle Dutch Analogue, Mariken van Nieumeghen
Av Medieval Institute Publications, Ton J. Broos
Inbunden, 2016
1393 kr
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Mary of Nemmegen, a prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play Mariken van Nieumeghen, is an important example of the literature that was imported from Holland in the early part of the sixteenth century. It also may be compared to Everyman, described as a treatise "in the manner of a …
Liturgical Drama and the Reimagining of Medieval Theater
Inbunden, 2017
1478 kr
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The expression "liturgical drama" was formulated in 1834 as a metaphor and hardened into formal category only later in the nineteenth century. Prior to this invention, the medieval rites and representations that would forge the category were understood as distinct and unrelated classes: as …
Jeu d'Adam
MS Tours 927 and the Provenance of the Play
Inbunden, 2017
1247 kr
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The Jeu d'Adam is an Anglo-Norman mid-twelfth-century representation of several biblical stories, including the temptation of Adam and Eve and the subsequent fall, Cain and Abel, and the prophets Isaiah and Daniel. Its framework builds on the Latin responses of the mass during the liturgical season …
Drama and Sermon in Late Medieval England
Performance, Authority, Devotion
Inbunden, 2017
1581 kr
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This full-length study investigates how sermons and vernacular religious drama worked as media for public learning, how they combined this didactic aim with literary exigencies, and how plays acquired and reflected authority. The interrelation between sermons and vernacular drama, formerly assumed …
From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage
Av Lisa Hopkins
Inbunden, 2017
1528 kr
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This book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between the withdrawal of the Roman legions and the Norman Conquest. A number of early modern plays suggest an underlying continuity, an essential English identity …
Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature
Cognition, Kinesis, and the Sacred
Av Sarah Brazil
Inbunden, 2018
1610 kr
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Every known society wears some form of clothing. It is central to how we experience our bodies and how we understand the sociocultural dimensions of our embodiment. It is also central to how we understand works of literature. In this innovative study, Brazil demonstrates how medieval writers use …
Early Drama, Art, and Music Documents
A Paleography Handbook
Inbunden, 1993
253 kr
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There are few experiences as discouraging to a researcher trained in art history, drama, music, folk arts, or social history as the first encounter with an original medieval or Renaissance document. Despite Satan's claim, there is little comfort in the company of others who are miserable, but it …
Fools and Folly
Inbunden, 1996
382 kr
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The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer the artificial Fool who specialized in clowning. His distinctive clothing and bauble are known to us through …
Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama
Inbunden, 1997
408 kr
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Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama is designed to open up a broader scope of study that calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York, and Chester. It addresses many questions that have …
Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama
Häftad, 1997
334 kr
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Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama is designed to open up a broader scope of study that calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York, and Chester. It addresses many questions that have …
